Wheaton College Massachusetts

Gallery Opening Reception
2024-02-02 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Fragile Vessels—Contemporary Ceramics and the Body
Please join us for our opening reception. Works by artists Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Miguel Enrique Lastra, Rob Raphael, Maedah Tafvizi Zavareh, and objects selected by the artists’ from the Wheaton College Permanent Collection are featured.

Dance Fest 2024: Momentum
2024-02-16 19:30, 2024-02-17 19:30, 2024-02-18 14:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Wheaton’s student-run dance groups present Dance Fest 2024: Momentum, featuring hip hop, salsa, tap, k-pop, step, and multi-cultural dance traditions, performed by TRYBE, Paraíso Latino, Tap Out Loud, KAOS and special guest, S.O.L.E.
Tickets: $10 general, $8 faculty/staff/ 65+, $5 students, can be purchased via the Watson Box Office.
Please note: This performance includes use of bright lights and strobe effects throughout the program.

An Evening with Artist Finnegan Shannon
2024-02-22 17:30 - 18:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Finnegan Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist whose work experiments with access and ableist assumptions. At Wheaton this semester, they will explore Alt text as poetry in an ongoing collaborative project with students. After the artist’s talk, Beard and Weil Galleries will be open for students to talk to Finnegan and hear more about joining the project.
Presented by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.

New Plays Festival
2024-02-24 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-24 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts
Longer form plays—written, directed and performed by Wheaton students—are showcased in our annual festival.

Definitive
2024-03-28 19:30, 2024-03-29 19:30, 2024-03-30 14:00 | Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts
The Department of Theatre & Dance and the Kresge Theatre Company proudly present Definite, a new play by Theatre and Dance major, Joey Del Santo ’25. Ambition, a crisis of identity, and fear plague a young couple in Washington, D.C. who are navigating career paths that may careen into their marriage and leave both of them stranded.
Tickets for this production are free via the Box Office. However if you would like to support future productions at Wheaton, you may choose to purchase tickets at the $5, $10 or $20 level. Any purchase regardless of cost will reserve you a seat for the performance and you may choose to purchase a combination of free and pay-what-you-can tickets.

Five-Minute Play Festival
2024-04-14 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
Original five-minute plays—written, directed, and performed by Wheaton students—are showcased in our biannual festival.
**please note, this event was originally scheduled for April 6, 2024

The World of Design—16th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture featuring Doug Scott
2024-04-17 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Join us as we explore the wide wide world of graphic design and its relationship to other design disciplines.
Doug Scott’s design work has won awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Society of Typographic Arts, Boston Hatch Awards, New York Art Directors Club, Boston Art Directors Club, Broadcast Designers Association and Bookbuilders of Boston. He has been a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts since 1974 and served on its national board of directors from 1989–1992. He currently runs a design practice doing book and identity design, and is consulting Art Director of Davis Publications, an art education publisher in Worcester, Massachusetts. Scott teaches graphic design, exhibition design, typography and graphic design history at the RISD and teaches graphic design and design history at the Yale School of Art. He has also taught at UMASS/Dartmouth, Northeastern, RIC and Connecticut College.

Student Recitals
2024-04-18 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Gifted student performers demonstrate mastery in voice, violin, cello, piano and other instruments.

2024 Visual Art and Design Majors' Senior Exhibition Opening Reception
2024-04-18 17:00 - 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
This annual exhibition highlights the work of Wheaton’s 21 graduating visual art and design majors. It features animation, painting, sculpture, app design, architecture, apparel design, photography, drawing, and textiles.

Gallery Opening
2024-04-18 17:00 - 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
2024 Visual Art and Design Majors’ Senior Exhibition

Sonder: the realization that each passerby’s life is as vivid and complex as your own
This annual exhibition highlights the work of Wheaton’s 21 graduating visual art and design majors. It features animation, painting, sculpture, app design, architecture, apparel design, photography, drawing, and textiles. The exhibition runs April 18–May 18, 2024 (hours may vary during finals and senior week May 7–18)

The Wheaton College Dance Company
2024-04-18 19:30, 2024-04-19 19:30, 2024-04-20 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The ensemble performs under the direction of Artistic Director Andrea Taylor-Blenis.
Tickets may be purchased via the Watson Box Office. $5 student, $10 faculty & staff & seniors, $15 general.

2024 Senior Creative Writing Majors' Reading
2024-04-23 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Please note: the location for this event has been moved to the Holman Room
Seniors graduating with a degree in creative writing and literature showcase original works of poetry, fiction and dramatic writing.

World Music Ensemble
2024-04-24 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The ensemble, under the direction of Assistant Professor Sheila Falls, performs music from a variety of genres from around the world.

Southeastern Massachusetts Wind Symphony presents By Request: Classical to Pops
2024-04-26 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Under the direction of Earl Raney, Associate Professor in Music Performance, Wheaton’s largest wind ensemble presents their spring concert By Request: Classical to Pops.
Suggested donation $5.

Wheaton Chorale and Chamber Singers: Around the World
2024-04-28 19:30 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Visiting Assistant Professor Alexandra Lutkevich, leads the ensembles, and an accompanying band, in a program of music from across the globe: South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and USA.
Suggested donation $10.

Phazed and Confused
2024-04-29 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
This student-led ensemble presents a program of music selected and arranged by the members.

Wheaton College Jazz Band
2024-05-01 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The Band performs a mix of American music ranging from jazz to rhythm and blues to rock.

Great Woods Symphony Orchestra presents Gustav Holst Sesquicentennial Concert
2024-05-05 15:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Under the direction of guest conductor, Jon Ceander Mitchell, the ensemble performs works by Mendelssohn as well as Holst and his contemporaries. The orchestra is comprised of Wheaton students, faculty, and members of the public. Suggested donation $5.

Student Film Screening
2024-05-07 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
A curated selection of student work is showcased in this end-of-semester screening.
Weber Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, 7:00 p.m.

Ensemble Experiments
2024-05-09 19:30, 2024-05-10 19:30 | Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts
Join our senior theatre Majors for their Capstone performance.
Free tickets can be reserved via the Watson Box Office .
